Foreword
by John Burnham Schwartz
Introduction
by Elmer Luke and David Karashima
The Island of Eternal Life
by Yoko Tawada
The Charm
by Kiyoshi Shigematsu
Nightcap
by Yoko Ogawa
God Bless You, 2011
with postscript and original 1993
version
by Hiromi Kawakami
March Yarn
by Mieko Kawakami
Lulu
by Shinji Ishii
One Year Later
by J. D. McClatchy
Grandma’s Bible
by Natsuki Ikezawa
Pieces
by Mitsuyo Kakuta
Sixteen Years Later, in the Same Place
by Hideo
Furukawa
The Crows and the Girl
by Brother & Sister Nishioka
Box Story
by Tetsuya Akikawa
Dream from a Fisherman’s Boat
by Barry Yourgrau
Hiyoriyama
by Kazumi Saeki
Ride on Time
by Kazushige Abe
Little Eucalyptus Leaves
by Ryu Murakami
After the Disaster, Before the Disaster
by David Peace
Elmer Luke is a writer and editor who has worked in publishing houses in New York and Tokyo, with a range of authors including Tom Wicker, Haruki Murakami, Colleen McCullough, Hiromi Kawakami, and Robert Whiting. He is adviser to the Read Japan project. David Karashima is an author whose first novel, in Japanese, was recipient of a prize for new writers; he is also a widely published translator of contemporary Japanese fiction into English, having translated works by Hitomi Kanehara, Taichi Yamada, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and Hisaki Matsuura, among others. In 2008 he helped found the Read Japan initiative at the Nippon Foundation, a partnership among authors, translators, editors, publishers, and universities to facilitate the publication of Japanese literature in translation.
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